NYT Standards Editor Bans Use Of The Word "Famously"

We undoubtedly fall into the same traps as every writer forced to churn out story after story every day: a favorite word repeated, a useless adjective thrown in here or there for extra color or perhaps even a misused word from time to time.

Unfortunately, unlike the writers at The New York Times, we don’t have a standards editor to gently tell us what we’re doing wrong and which words are strictly verboten. (We also don’t get the benefit of using those handy Times copy editors, but that’s a story for another day.)

Today,

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